For those dealing with this latest storm!!

[Kiriana]

Well South Carolina just had to celebrate tonight with a bang after this storm.. we had a 4.1 Earthquake at about 10:30pm. Was felt in NC as well as GA. My house shook. Felt like a shockwave passing through my livingroom. And we are about 80 miles from the epicenter that was in Edgefield, SC.

[Alderic]

You guys in the south really have been getting hammered this year. I think you've gotten just as many snow storms this year as we have up north. Just as bad too. I saw weather reports about how it was just as cold down in Georgia as it was here on the average day.
I heard nothing about the quake though.

[Eric C]

Weird stuff happening here in the south lately.

[Eledhwen]

You folks stay safe.

Here in Massachusetts, western portion, the snow is a couple of feet deep on the level bits with banks and drifts over six feet high. Nothing unusual for a good New England Winter; I have seen them far, far worse.

Be of good cheer; the Sun is returning and She will sort things out in Her own good time. (Hobbits and Elves refer to the sun as 'She', and so do I.)

The mid-Spring point is near, only a few weeks away and the run to Summer commences in earnest.

Eledhwen

[Straelbora]

You folks stay safe.

Here in Massachusetts, western portion, the snow is a couple of feet deep on the level bits with banks and drifts over six feet high. Nothing unusual for a good New England Winter; I have seen them far, far worse.

Be of good cheer; the Sun is returning and She will sort things out in Her own good time. (Hobbits and Elves refer to the sun as 'She', and so do I.)

The mid-Spring point is near, only a few weeks away and the run to Summer commences in earnest.

Eledhwen

I think Tolkien borrowed the sun as female from the Celts; the sun in Irish Gaelic is "Graine," and is a female noun.

[Eledhwen]

And the Japanese; the Sun is female for them, or was at one time. Actually, for a lot of early cultures the Sun was female, something that hasn't really filtered through to the modern age so easily.

Eledhwen

[Chris Russo]

And the Japanese; the Sun is female for them, or was at one time. Actually, for a lot of early cultures the Sun was female, something that hasn't really filtered through to the modern age so easily.
Eledhwen

We're too Hellenistic in our thought: Helios and Selene, Apollo and Diana, etc.